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Re: Can't Remove Files



On 10/24/07, Telly Williams <twilliams001@elp.rr.com> wrote:

>         My plan was to put all of the programs that I wanted to manually
>         install (compile) after I reinstalled the OS onto the usb

You did say "reinstalled" - was the OS installed on the *same*
partition as the program files you wanted to use? Are you sure the
partition is vfat now? (vfat isn't a good idea for files that may be
used in linux - especially as installation files - it simply needs
permissions to work.


>         looked like: ????????.??, etc.  When I tried to delete them I
>         got a "cannot lstat" error along with a "read-only" explanation.

Seems like filesystem corruption.

> Telly Williams



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